Web Search Strategy Skill
Conduct structured research with cross-referenced findings and confidence scoring.
Trigger Conditions
- •Research request for technology evaluation
- •Need to validate technical decisions against current best practices
- •User invokes with "research" or "technology evaluation"
Input Contract
- •Required: Research question or topic
- •Optional: Constraints (technology stack, budget, timeline)
Output Contract
- •Ranked findings with confidence levels (high/medium/low)
- •Cross-referenced sources (minimum 2 per finding)
- •Recommendation with rationale
Tool Permissions
- •Read: Project context for relevance filtering
- •Web: Search and fetch capabilities
- •Write: Research reports
Execution Steps
- •Decompose research question into specific search queries
- •Execute searches across multiple authoritative sources
- •Cross-reference findings (minimum 2 sources per claim)
- •Assign confidence levels based on source authority and agreement
- •Synthesize findings into structured report
- •Provide recommendation with caveats
Success Criteria
- •Every finding cross-referenced from 2+ sources
- •Confidence levels assigned to all claims
- •Recommendation includes trade-offs and caveats
- •Sources are authoritative and current (within 1 year)
Escalation Rules
- •Escalate if findings are contradictory across authoritative sources
- •Escalate if confidence is Low for a critical decision input
Example Invocations
Input: "Compare Temporal vs Restate for workflow orchestration in Go"
Output: Research report: Temporal (mature, large community, complex deployment) vs Restate (simpler deployment, newer, smaller community). Confidence: HIGH on feature comparison, MEDIUM on production readiness (Restate is newer). Recommendation: Temporal for production workloads requiring proven reliability; Restate for simpler use cases valuing operational simplicity.